If it’s not their violent tongues causing men to lash out, then it’s women’s unbridled sexuality, prompting feelings of jealousy that men can’t control. Or else it could be their womanly wiles, that particularly female taste for manipulation and cunning. Or maybe, as in the case of Sarah Bramley, it’s all of those things at once.

Yesterday Bramley pleaded guilty to incitement to cause common assault, having sent her ex-boyfriend, David Saunders, an intimate photograph of herself with another man. She then followed up the photograph with “goading” texts.